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Here comes the third round of Amazon pilots, even before we've seen the fruits of the second. The first gave the world Garry Trudeau's (neologism alert) Republicom "Alpha House," whose second season began filming in July. Jill Soloway's "Transparent," one of four green-lighted pilots from the last batch, arrives as a series to stream via Amazon.com in late September. It's useful to remember that pilots are only pilots. They are ideas made flesh in order to see whether those ideas are good or not, or how they might be tweaked in order to become good. The twist with Amazon's endeavor, which is as much of a marketing idea as a process, is that...

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Here comes the third round of Amazon pilots, even before we've seen the fruits of the second. The first gave the world Garry Trudeau's (neologism alert) Republicom "Alpha House," whose second season began filming in July. Jill Soloway's...